CaseOther1962
Chicago, IL, USA
In 1962, a witness in Chicago, Illinois, reported a large object with colored revolving lights positioned between two metallic cylindrical objects, over about thirty minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (174 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-07-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-chicago-il-1962-40cebc
In context
- This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
- This case is one of 6 Illinois reports filed in 1962.
- Other craft made up 6.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.